Edmond Noel

Edmond Favor Noel (4 March 1856-30 July 1927) was Governor of Mississippi from 21 January 1908 to 16 January 1912, succeeding James K. Vardaman and preceding Earl L. Brewer.

Biography
Edmond Favor Noel was born in Lexington, Mississippi on 4 March 1856. He became a lawyer and the owner of a law practice, and he became a member of the conservative US Democratic Party before joining the State House of Representatives. In 1895, he became a state senator, and he served in the US Army during the Spanish-American War of 1898. In 1907, Noel was elected Governor of Mississippi, and he consolidated rural school districts, established all-white agricultural high schools and founded an all-white teachers' college in Hattiesburg, passed child labor laws, implemented Prohibition in Mississippi, founded a state charity hospital, and established pure food laws. He preserved and renovated the governor's mansion rather than allow it to be torn down, and he served in the State Senate again from 1920 until his death in 1927.